API Integration Team Lead

at  Harvey Norman

Job no: 562835
Work type: Full Time
Location: Homebush West

Categories: Information Technology

• Access to Udemy an online training platform with over 5,500 courses
• Based at Homebush West, free on-site parking or a 10 minute walk from Flemington station
• Experience working within a diverse, unique, and successful global organisation

As Australia’s largest retailer of lifestyle products, with nearly 300 stores worldwide, Harvey Norman® has been a part of almost every Australian’s shopping experience. Whether getting the latest electronic gadgets, or furnishing your first home, Harvey Norman® is the place where you can shop with confidence.

Reporting to the Enterprise Integration Delivery Manager and based onsite at our Homebush-West franchisor office, this hands-on role in our Enterprise Applications team involves designing, developing, and managing the lifecycle of our Microsoft Azure API capabilities. You will deliver solutions for both internal and external customers, leading a team that engages and collaborates with IT and business stakeholders to ensure secure, resilient, and seamless data exchange and communication between diverse systems globally.

Responsibilities include;

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the API team, enhancing their capabilities and skills through effective coaching and development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment of integration and architectures to technical solutions with business objectives and requirements.
• Oversee major API initiatives and projects, ensuring they meet current and future needs, while gathering stakeholder feedback to enhance service quality and business enablement.
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of APIs, from solution design to detailed execution, ensuring successful project completion.
• Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes and are consistently of high-quality.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement and feedback.
• Develop and maintain test plans, cases, and automation and API documentation.
• Identify bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses, and propose solutions to optimise security, performance, and scalability.
• Ensure enhancements are being prioritised based on their potential to address user needs and pain points and minimise disruption by embracing incremental change.
• Ensure API’s are scalable, secure and performance and implement and enforce security best practices.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of API services.